Stephen Jaquiery

Rob Willers was a late convert to surfing.

If Wild Behaviour, by photographer Trevor Penfold, has a familiar feel to southerners, it is because many of the species he has photographed are residents here.

CHOPPER CHATTER The adventures and misadventures of a New Zealand helicopter pilot. Ken Tustin

Otago Daily Times illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery spent two days with his camera at the Haast cattle sale last week.

Read the story: Stud proves a winner 

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This fairly pointed title refers to the subject of the book, Stewart Smith, who devoted much energy during his 95 years to a passion for fish.

Tighten up your seat belt, the pilot already has.

Ken Tustin, New Zealand's most dedicated moose hunter, unsuccessful to date, has penned a book about another passion in his life - flying helicopters.

Loch Lomond Ted, the South Devon bull from Brian and Ann Thomson's Loch Lomond stud at Allanton, south of Dunedin, was named supreme all breed beef champion at the recent Upper Clutha A and P Show in Wanaka.

A firearms licence is far easier to get than a licence to drive a car. You don't even need to handle a rifle first. So the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association offers new hunters a training course teaching safe hunting practices.

Stephen Jaquiery visits the offshore sanctuary of Codfish Island, a small island to the west of Stewart Island, where he finds the delightful kakapo is not the only interesting island-dweller.

Imagine feeling privileged being allowed to travel to one of New Zealand's most protected offshore islands, only to spend most of the day in a blackened tin shed smaller than a prison cell.